Developing Good Practice in Care Farming
This course will give you a more detailed look at care farming, and developing good practice on your farm, whether you are new to care farming, or whether you have already set up your farming practice.
Care farming is the therapeutic use of farming practices – where service users regularly attend the care farm as part of a structured health or social care, rehabilitation or specialist educational programme. The powerful mix of being in nature, being part of a group and taking part in meaningful farming-related activities is what makes care farming so successful.
This course is delivered by our partners Thrive, and follows on from our free Starting with Care Farming resource.
On this course, you will:.jpg)
- Gain a basic knowledge of theories that support care farming and underpin Green Care
- Be able to identify the key components of good practice in care farming
- Understand how the key components work in practice in a care farming programme
- Have some knowledge about how to strengthen good practice in care farming
- Understand the importance of demonstrating your impact to stakeholders which include your service users, funders, commissioners as well as the people that work and volunteer with you.
Who for: Prospective care farmers, new and existing care farmers, those wanting to develop and deliver care farming (green care) services.
Cost: £40 (funding for the GCF project has ended so we are unable to offer this course at its previous subsidised rate).
How to access: This course is delivered through self-directed online study via the ThriveLearn portal. Once you have subscribed, you will receive a welcome email with instructions to set up a ThriveLearn account and access the course.
If you are further along your journey in care farming, we also offer a Developing Good Practice in Care Farming course.
